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Organize your manuscript. Write every chapter.
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Import a DOCX from Word, a Scrivener compile, or Google Docs. Verify chapters, headings, italics, scene breaks, and special elements, then continue in the Cambric production source.
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Keep the editable manuscript beside the composed book. Apply an interior, inspect chapter openings, scene breaks, running matter, and page flow, then correct the source before you export a single file.
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See the print pages before you export.
Set the trim and interior, then inspect margins, page numbers, running heads, chapter openings, and page flow across the actual manuscript. Cambric composes the pages; you approve the result.
Export a print PDF, then compare it with each printer's current requirements and proof the edition.
“You’re going to have to open it eventually,” said Marcus from the doorway. He was already dressed for work, keys in hand, the way he always was by seven.
Eleanor didn’t look up. The postmark read Ashworth, and that alone was enough to make her hands unsteady. Eleven years of silence, and now this — heavy cream paper on her kitchen table, waiting with the patience of something that had already decided how it would end.
“It’s not going anywhere,” she said.
“That’s what I’m worried about.”
The door clicked shut behind him. She listened to the car start, the crunch of gravel, the silence that settled back over the house like dust over a room nobody enters.
She poured her coffee and sat across from it, the way she always did. Not touching it. Not opening it. Just sitting with the fact of it, the way you sit with news you already know but haven’t yet confirmed.
It was from her sister. It had to be. Nobody else wrote like that — the sharp downstrokes, the loops that never quite closed, as if every letter was trying to leave before it was finished.
The envelope had been sitting on the kitchen table for three days. Eleanor noticed it every morning when she came downstairs — the heavy cream paper, the handwriting she hadn’t seen in eleven years.
She poured her coffee and sat across from it. The postmark read Ashworth. She could picture the post office — the brass slots, the woman behind the counter who always smelled of lavender and disapproval.
Marcus had noticed it on Monday. “What’s that?” he’d asked, and she’d said “Nothing,” which was true in every way that mattered and false in every way that didn’t.
By Wednesday she had memorized the handwriting through the envelope. She knew it was two pages, maybe three. She knew her sister had pressed hard enough to leave an impression on the back, the way she always did when she was writing something she meant.
The envelope had been sitting on the kitchen table for three days. Eleanor noticed it every morning when she came downstairs — the heavy cream paper, the handwriting she hadn’t seen in eleven years.
She poured her coffee and sat across from it, the way she always did. Not touching it. Not opening it. Just sitting with the fact of it, the way you sit with news you already know but haven’t yet confirmed.
The postmark read Ashworth, and that alone was enough to make her hands unsteady. She could picture the post office — the brass slots, the woman behind the counter who always smelled of lavender and disapproval.
“You’re going to have to open it eventually,” said Marcus from the doorway. He was already dressed for work, keys in hand, the way he always was by seven.
“It’s not going anywhere,” she said.
“That’s what I’m worried about.”
The door clicked shut behind him. She listened to the car start, the crunch of gravel, the silence that settled back over the house like dust over a room nobody enters.
The envelope had been sitting on the kitchen table for three days. Eleanor noticed it every morning when she came downstairs.
She poured her coffee and sat across from it, the way she always did. The postmark read Ashworth.
“You’re going to have to open it eventually,” said Marcus from the doorway.
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Generate EPUB 3 from the same structured manuscript used for print. Validate the file, inspect navigation, resize the text, and review each retailer's processed preview.
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A production source ready to revise.
Keep the manuscript, interior settings, and release outputs connected through one project. Correct the source, regenerate both formats, and inspect every edition before upload.
Keep one source
The Cambric project remains the authority for the approved manuscript and interior rules across print and ebook.
Inspect before upload
Review the print PDF, validate and device-test the EPUB, then use each platform's current preview and proof workflow.
Regenerate after changes
Correct a typo or update back matter in the source, regenerate both formats, and archive the exact release files.
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Start with a style. Make it yours.
Start with a coordinated interior, apply it to the real manuscript, and inspect the typography, margins, headers, spacing, and page flow.
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Your manuscript lives on your machine, and the core writing, formatting, preview, and export workflow remains local.
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